Nice 2 Hack You – comb the net, win some prizes

If you’re on the internet, your information is going to be sold to someone, somewhere. It’s a fact of digital life. Since so many of the things we access are free, they have to make their money up somewhere. If it’s going to happen anyway, there’s no reason you can’t benefit as well! Nice 2 Hack You is an internet extension that uses your browser history to reward you with prizes.

This is just for fun. It’s part of a promotion for the band Big Data but it’s clever and deliciously geeky. If you add the extension to Chrome, the system will comb through your browser history and come up with the interesting places you’ve been on the internet. If you share your results with friends, you’ll be entered in to win some prizes.

If all you do is look at Facebook and Tumblr then your internet world is likely pretty boring but if you surf the net like it’s the 90s, then you may have some hidden gems in there to share. You never really know. Nice 2 Hack You is a free and you stand to win some sweet swag.

Donyae’s love for technology is based on a need to survive our future robotic overlords. Know thy enemy as you know yourself. But since even odds are on the zombie future, she has also learned how to prepare squirrel. You can find her on Facebook until the robots – or zombies – rise up.